Bootstrap carousel indicator position

Question

I have bootstrap carousel with text slider, i have problem with indicators ,because if text large or small, my indicators dont have fixed position. I tried to set limited height for carousel class and thats work only for caomputers, but not responsive on mobile devices, and i deleted height.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MwGLJd

HTML

<div class="about mainContainer">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8">
            <h2 class="fontraleway">WHO WE ARE?</h2>
            <div id="locations" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
                    <ol class="carousel-indicators">
                        <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
                        <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="1"></li>
                        <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="2"></li>
                        <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="3"></li>
                    </ol>

                    <div class="carousel-inner">
                        <div class="item active">
                            <center>
                                Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque iaculis rhoncus finibus. Donec tempor mi massa, a sollicitudin diam semper ut. Nam pulvinar nisi nisi, vitae rhoncus purus rhoncus id. Nam ac augue sed erat consequat efficitur. Integer aliquet elit et velit porttitor, eget blandit arcu venenatis. Donec fringilla urna purus, sit amet malesuada est dignissim mattis. Donec cursus, quam vel luctus blandit, dui sapien interdum sapien, vitae ultrices arcu leo et augue. Vestibulum fermentum nulla augue, in ultrices risus rutrum a. Suspendisse sed porttitor tellus. Ut vitae vulputate sapien, a facilisis quam. 
                            </center>
                        </div>

                        <div class="item">
                            <center>
                                Ut eu iaculis arcu. Cras pretium lacus eget mi mattis sollicitudin. Vivamus posuere vehicula mi eu condimentum. Donec eros dolor, sagittis quis arcu non, pulvinar euismod turpis. Suspendisse accumsan sodales massa, eget pretium nunc rhoncus a. Fusce a magna sit amet odio ullamcorper dapibus nec quis nulla. Curabitur enim risus, convallis at felis non, consectetur efficitur risus. Class aptent taciti eptos himenaeos. Nulla facilisi. Aliquam posuere feugiat risus, non mollis nunc iaculis nec. Praesent non tellus rhoncus
                            </center>
                        </div>

                        <div class="item">
                            <center>
                                Sed eget luctus leo, eu sagittis felis. Vestibulum et tellus sed neque gravida pretium vel pellentesque tellus. Nullam in dolor magna. Donec in mauris eget nisl volutpat ornare a ut dolor. Vestibulum sit amet felis et purus sagittis interdum. Quisque quis nisi neque. In viverra lobortis ex in auctor. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut at nulla augue. Duis et congue erat. Maecenas odio justo, finibus at nulla at, luctus elementum eros. Quisque eget nisl felis. Phasellus tempus imperdiet dui condimentum bibendum. Sed a turpis quis diam ullamcorper interdum in at lectus
                            </center>
                        </div>

                         <div class="item">
                            <center>
                                Ut eu iaculis arcu. Cras pretium lacus eget mi mattis sollicitudin. Vivamus posuere vehicula mi eu condimentum. Donec eros dolor, sagittis quis arcu non, pulvinar euismod turpis. Suspendisse accumsan sodales massa, eget pretium nunc rhoncus a. Fusce a magna sit amet odio ullamcorper dapibus nec quis nulla. Curabitur enim risus, convallis at felis non, consectetur efficitur risus. Class aptent taciti eptos himenaeos. Nulla facilisi. Aliquam posuere feugiat risus, non mollis nunc iaculis nec. Praesent non tellus rhoncus
                            </center>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
        </div>
    </div><!--Closed div row-->
</div><!--Closed div about-->

CSS

.services h2{
margin-top: 97px;
}
.carousel-indicators li{
background-color: transparent;
border:2px solid #dbdbdb;
}
.carousel-indicators .active{
background-color: #3eb8df;
border:2px solid #3eb8df;
}
.carousel-indicators{
    bottom:-60px !important;
}
.carousel-indicators li{
    width:15px !important;
    height:15px !important;
}

Answer 1

Just set a min-height on the carousel-inner element that will make the indicators stay at the same position.

The easiest way to do that would be to add it into your CSS like so:

.carousel-inner {
  min-height: 120px;
}

But the problem with this is, whenever the size of the window changes, the size of the items inside of carousel-inner will change as well and their height might exceed the 120px.

So much better would be to get the item with the biggest height and then add the min-height property dynamically. Here is an example:

$(function () {

  // Reference your carousel-inner and the items.
  var $carouselnner = $(".carousel-inner"),
      $carouselItems = $carouselnner.find('.item');

  // Handle window resize.
  function resizeHandler() {

    // Map over all items to get their height and assign it to minHeight.
    var minHeight = $carouselItems.map(function () {
      return $(this).height();
    }).get();

    // Now let's apply the biggest height as the value of min-height on carousel-inner.
    $carouselnner.css('min-height',  Math.max.apply(null, minHeight) + 10 + 'px');

  }

  // Add a listener to window resize and trigger it immediately.
  $(window).resize(resizeHandler).trigger('resize');

});

.services h2 {
  margin-top: 97px;
}
.carousel-indicators li {
  background-color: transparent;
  border: 2px solid #dbdbdb !important;
}
.carousel-indicators .active {
  background-color: #3eb8df !important;
  border: 2px solid #3eb8df !important;
}
.carousel-indicators {
  bottom: -60px !important;
}
.carousel-indicators li {
  width: 15px !important;
  height: 15px !important;
}

.carousel-inner {
  min-height: 120px;
}

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="about mainContainer">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8">
      <h2 class="fontraleway">WHO WE ARE?</h2>
      <div id="locations" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
        <ol class="carousel-indicators">
          <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
          <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="1"></li>
          <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="2"></li>
          <li data-target="#locations" data-slide-to="3"></li>
        </ol>

        <div class="carousel-inner">
          <div class="item active">
            <center>
              Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque iaculis rhoncus finibus. Donec tempor mi massa, a sollicitudin diam semper ut. Nam pulvinar nisi nisi, vitae rhoncus purus rhoncus id. Nam ac augue sed erat consequat efficitur. Integer aliquet elit et velit porttitor, eget blandit arcu venenatis. Donec fringilla urna purus, sit amet malesuada est dignissim mattis. Donec cursus, quam vel luctus blandit, dui sapien interdum sapien, vitae ultrices arcu leo et augue. Vestibulum fermentum nulla augue, in ultrices risus rutrum a. Suspendisse sed porttitor tellus. Ut vitae vulputate sapien, a facilisis quam. 
            </center>
          </div>

          <div class="item">
            <center>
              Ut eu iaculis arcu. Cras pretium lacus eget mi mattis sollicitudin. Vivamus posuere vehicula mi eu condimentum. Donec eros dolor, sagittis quis arcu non, pulvinar euismod turpis. Suspendisse accumsan sodales massa, eget pretium nunc rhoncus a. Fusce a magna sit amet odio ullamcorper dapibus nec quis nulla. Curabitur enim risus, convallis at felis non, consectetur efficitur risus. Class aptent taciti eptos himenaeos. Nulla facilisi. Aliquam posuere feugiat risus, non mollis nunc iaculis nec. Praesent non tellus rhoncus
            </center>
          </div>

          <div class="item">
            <center>
              Sed eget luctus leo, eu sagittis felis. Vestibulum et tellus sed neque gravida pretium vel pellentesque tellus. Nullam in dolor magna. Donec in mauris eget nisl volutpat ornare a ut dolor. Vestibulum sit amet felis et purus sagittis interdum. Quisque quis nisi neque. In viverra lobortis ex in auctor. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut at nulla augue. Duis et congue erat. Maecenas odio justo, finibus at nulla at, luctus elementum eros. Quisque eget nisl felis. Phasellus tempus imperdiet dui condimentum bibendum. Sed a turpis quis diam ullamcorper interdum in at lectus
            </center>
          </div>

          <div class="item">
            <center>
              Ut eu iaculis arcu. Cras pretium lacus eget mi mattis sollicitudin. Vivamus posuere vehicula mi eu condimentum. Donec eros dolor, sagittis quis arcu non, pulvinar euismod turpis. Suspendisse accumsan sodales massa, eget pretium nunc rhoncus a. Fusce a magna sit amet odio ullamcorper dapibus nec quis nulla. Curabitur enim risus, convallis at felis non, consectetur efficitur risus. Class aptent taciti eptos himenaeos. Nulla facilisi. Aliquam posuere feugiat risus, non mollis nunc iaculis nec. Praesent non tellus rhoncus
            </center>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div><!--Closed div row-->
</div><!--Closed div about-->